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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Remit, Terms of Reference and Priorities: Commission on Taxation and Welfare (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will keep them very short. Is the commission going to look at international experience? For example, employers' PRSI here is way below what is required. That brings me to my second question. The commission has been asked to look at long-term commitments from the Government but governments change. Some parties want to see a bigger State and greater State involvement while others want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses. I also welcome that we are dealing with the heads of this proposed Bill. It was mentioned the Central Bank's behaviour and culture report into Irish retail banks which called for this type of legislation was published in July 2018. We are now coming to the end of 2021 and we still do not have the legislation, only heads of the proposed Bill. What is disappointing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is clear in the legislation and is not my question. Each of these regulated financial institutions will have to map out the structures and roles each individual has. This person would have that area of management. He or she has taken all reasonable steps and therefore absolves himself or herself from action by the Central Bank, but by reporting the issue further up the line to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The explanatory note states that this is done to ensure that no further damage will be done to financial services. The key question is whether this will be applicable to somebody who no longer holds a controlled function and no longer operates in the financial services sector. Does the reach still go that far?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The explanatory note of Head 11 states: This head provides for the amendment of section 25 of the 2010 Act to ensure that the Central Bank can investigate individuals who the Bank suspects pose a danger to consumers or the financial system, irrespective of whether they continue to perform a CF role at the time when an investigation is being commenced. The problem is that the explanatory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will run out of time, but what is envisaged in this scheme is that we can fine individuals who held those roles, so it is not just about whether they are fit to carry out a function again in the future. Many of them cut and run; they sell up the company. We have seen it with the Davy Group, and so on. We need to have reach in a situation where somebody has been caught red handed, leaves,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am satisfied with that. On defining a prescribed contravention, it is the same as set out in the Central Bank Act 1942. It includes the mistreatment of consumers under a breach of the consumer code. I presume that that will be the same and it will be in the scope of the legislation. The question is how that will be defined and how the mistreatment of consumers will be defined under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that it is an enhancement to where we are at, but I want to get it crystal clear in my own head. Whatever about common standards, a breach of that is committing a prescribed contravention. Clearly, in this legislation, it is defined how somebody commits a prescribed contravention. Therefore, you will have to find that the regulated firm is in breach first before you can find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The legislation states, if an individual is not in compliance with the common conduct standards, that is a prescribed contravention under Part IIIC of the Central Bank Act. Are we right there, yes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: My problem concerns Head 5, which reads: A person commits a prescribed contravention for the purposes of Part IIIC of the Central Bank Act 1942 where all of the following are satisfied: (a) the person is performing, or has at any time performed, a senior executive function in relation to a regulated financial service provider, (b) there has at that time been (or continued to be) a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Earlier I mentioned somebody who acted in good faith, tried to stop the contravention and reported the matter up the line. Head 5, section 1(c) reads, "the senior executive function performed by the person was at that time responsible for the management or oversight of the regulated financial service provider's activities in relation to which the contravention" was happening, and that is my...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the detail of the current roll out of the National Broadband Plan in County Donegal by townland; the extent of the planned roll out for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52756/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a property (details supplied) can connect to fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 316. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an gcuirfear deontas atosaithe ar fáil do theaghlaigh a mbíonn scoláirí Gaeilge á gcoinneáil acu faoin scéim do na Mná Tí mar gheall ar na costais mhóra a bhí orthu chun go mbeidís in ann atosú in 2022. [52217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that current regulations are sufficient to ensure manufactured concrete blocks safe to use in relation to MICA and pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52322/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Construction Products Regulations which came into effect across the EU on 1 July 2013 are sufficient to ensure manufactured concrete blocks are safe for building homes in relation to MICA and pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all agencies involved in the regulating of concrete blocks, building control standards and the CE marking of blocks in place since 2013 are sufficient to ensure that all manufactured cement blocks are safe to use even if they contain some levels of MICA and pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52324/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the regulatory authorities involved in the production of new concrete blocks are satisfied that the issues highlighted by the MICA and pyrite scandal have been addressed by the CE declaration and homeowners can be assured that the concrete blocks they purchase are safe for building homes going forward; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an applicant cancels an online passport application and makes an appointment with the Passport Office for the application to process in time for intended travel date, if the appointment will be honoured and the processing of the application facilitated; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52876/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 969. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to have pharmacies administer Covid-19 booster vaccinations in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52703/21]